WordPress for Dummies October 23, 2007
Posted by Andy Roberts in : wordpress , trackbackNewly written and available for ordering now (out Monday 29th October 2007) is Wordpress for Dummies - and no, it isn’t all about blogspot.
“Create a hosted, self-hosted or multi-user blog, explore plugins and more”
So who is the author, Lisa Sabin-Wilson? According to the flier, Lisa operates E.Webscapes Design Studio, where she designs and develops blogs foe clients large and small. She has worked with WordPress since 2003 and speaks frequently at conferences. But never mind that where is her own blog?
It’s here: Justagirlintheworld.com
Back to WordPress for Dummies, it promises to show you how to:
- Personalize the settings within WordPress
Hopefully not by listing all the options and going through the menus item by item.
- Understand common template tags
Cool. First find out what is meant by a “template tag”, then which are the common ones, then let’s try and understand them. Sounds like an advanced option which should come much later than some of the others below, or else a problem with nomenclature. The word “tag” is problematic where WorPress is concerned in a number of contexts.
- Manage and moderate comments
Manage comments? Ok.
- Deal with comment and trackback spam
- Troubleshoot common problems
- Sign up for, set up and use a hosted blog at WordPress.com
- Download, install, set up and use WordPress on your own web hosting account
- Find, download, install and manage WordPress plugins
That’s all the basic covered then. Find, choose, download and enhance themes perhaps?
- Learn and understand the “Loop”
- Learn the ins and outs of simple template tags and theme creation
Ah the template tags again. So this is a dummies guide to PHP hacking as well, then.
- Download, install, configure, set up and use the WordPress MU software to create your own blog community/network
The more the merrier.
- ….and MORE
It sounds well worth the ten and a half quid for WordPress for Dummies doesn’t it, or I believe there is also a download version. Obviously all of the information in the book can also be found through trawling the web, countless blogs and forums about wordpress but sometimes it’s useful to have a visual quick jump into a topic. Here’s the amazon link again:
WordPress For Dummies® (For Dummies)
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